Brain Power: Memory exercises offered by IBM Retirees Club

The Tri-State IBM Retirees Club’s March meeting will feature a presentation on memory exercises with Tony Dottino of New Rochelle, founder and chairman of the USA Memory Championship.

Participants are asked to bring pens or pencils to the meeting, which will be held at 1:30 p.m. March 21 at the United Methodist Church, 176 E. Main St., Shrub Oak. Coffee and refreshments are available at 1 p.m.

Monthly meetings of the club, which has about 100 members, are usually held on the last Thursday of each month.

Robert Brum, assistant metro editor for Northern Westchester and Putnam, joined The Journal News in 1991. He was a copy editor in the paper's Harrison newsroom and night city editor in the Yonkers/Mount Vernon bureau before working in the Rockland newsroom from 1998 to 2011. He is now the local editor for the Putnam-Northern Westchester bureau. A graduate of Ramapo High School and SUNY Brockport, Brum lives in Westchester.